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The Beginning
CONTENTS
5 Forwards
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6 The Beginning
10 Key Player
20 Utopian Life
28 Politics
34 Influencers
42 Artifacts
54 The End of The Stijl
60 Analysis
64 Artwork
Foreword.
This is a book assignment by Rayhan Rusyda, a design student from Mercu Buana University with the aim of illuminating a part of the great history of Art and Design.. The short lived movement that will be the subject of this book may have been small but it has had a large and lasting effect.
on the development of both modern design and archetecture. This volume will give an explanation of who the key players in the De Stijl group were, what drove them and what impact their lives, thoughts and works have had on the world we live in today.
The Beginning.
De Stijl, Dutch for the style, was originally founded as a magazine by Theo van Doesberg in Leiden, in the Netherlands on June 16, 1917. This magazine was mainly used as a means to document and publish the works of the artists involved. De Stijl's expression later became the name of the art movement.
De Stijl's main contributors were artists van Doesberg and Piet Mondrian, and architects J.J.P. Oud and Gerrit Reitveld, who then went on to design and create the Schroder House inspired by De Stijl, a sturdy building made of flat layouts, moveable plans, and primary colors. This movement later attracted the attention of artists, designers and architects including Jean Arp Corenlius van Eesteren, Vilmos Huszar, Bart van der Leck, El Lissitzky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges vantongerloo, Freidrich Vordemberge-Gilderwar, Jan Willis and Piet Zwart.
